Jokowi Says Indonesians Are ‘Screaming’ for Curbs to be Gone
A street vendor is set up on a near-empty road in Jakarta, on July 28.
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Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo said the country still can’t resort to a full lockdown even as it tops the world’s daily number of coronavirus deaths.
“As I visited the villages and the cities, so many people are screaming for a reopening -- this is only a semi lockdown, not a full lockdown,” he said in an address to small entrepreneurs on Friday. “I also stress, a lockdown won’t necessarily end the problem.”